Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-06-02
Mahone's Candidate.

which JOHN SHERMAN, MAHoNE's faiorite
for The presidency, delivered in Spring
field, Ill.,, yesterday before the Republican
members OF the Legislature Of that Stale.
IT'S full Of simulated or real malice. He
even Gsres 10 call Democratic theories a
TO TIC nature OF the Federal Government
"CoufedeIste theories. We need not
undertake. TO eonfute Mr.. SHERMAN. The
peop.e have had enough Of such bloody.
shirt waivers as he. and will never eject
him 10 the presidency. We wish merely
to Let the voters az Virginia learn from
SHERMaN'S own words what manner OF man
NAHoNE's candidate IL. Mr.. SHERMAN said:
"Let us pause at the end Of the war and
imaQ inc with what feeling these returning
soldiers would have received the prophecy
that, within twenty years. toe same ee.
meLts Of hostility 10 The Union cause, the
same alliance between CouiedcrateS and
their sympaihizers, would he in possession
OF the presidential Office and in substantial
control OF the Government; that the slaves,
though nominally free, were deprived by
unlawful means Of all political power and
their numbers counted TO swell the political
power OF their former owners. who could
believe that such could be the resulty AMI
what mockery Of justice, what reproach
TO our patriotism, what a shame to our loyal
people that it is sos
Look at the devish malignity OF the in
gtnious phrase, "thc same alliance between
CorftderoteS and their sympathizers." l.
such man as that tit to be the President
of reunited countr, pa man whose heart
is full OF bitterness against his cOuntrymen
twtuiy.odd years after Tie war between the
States ended:
We quote MAEONE's candidate 4gain:
"There is not al intelligent man in this
broad land, OF either party, who does not
know that Mr.. Cleveland Is now President
of the United States by virtue Of crimes
agsinst the elective franchise, including
murder. arson, ballot-bOX stufiing. forgery,
and perjury, but for which james G.. Blaine
would now be in bis place. There has not
been moment since the adoption Of the
fifteenth amendment when, If there could
have been fair election for President,
msjority OF the cOnsii utional voters 0t at
least live OF the southern States would not
have voted for the Republican nominee"
There is not an intelligent man in this
ioIity Of the lawful voters OF this country
wee IN The Democratic party from 1865 up
to the time when the negroes were made
voters. The southern States were for that
reason not allowed to eject congressman.
The war ended in 1865, and Virginia was
not permitted 10 be represented in Con-
gress until 1870. a majority OF the con-
sti,utioual voters" were kept under by
military power until the Republican
traitors supposed that they had transferred
the ajorlty 10 their side by masins voters
of the negroes. II Mr.. SHERMAN has
foadness for recalling outrages, let him
ask himself how West NIrgilia was
divided, and how the thirteenth and four
tenth and fifteenth amendments were 7Iti-
fed? The history of the world cannot
furnish parallel to tue reconstruction
legislation and the reconstruction ouirages.
Mr.. SHERMAN exposes his own falsehOods
when be says:
"But they Qbe negTOe>) are not utterly
helpless. Tue pow er to migrate wherever IN.
Justice Is uncomfortable should be exercised
DIV every Ulhu WIN i'iio 'Pl'aN -
should be organized 10y every community
that is wroDged, encouraged 10y all lawful
means, and this will, In my Judgment, be
the most potent agency IN preventing 10.
Justice. II is the first and most powerful
right Of freedom, more potent than violeace
and more certain than force"
Yes, twenty. odd years Of southern out
RACES have not induced the negroes to mi
crate. They live in Kentucky and West
Virginia rather than in Ohio; in Virginia
rather than in New York; in Maryland
rather than In Pennsylvania. They fatten
and flourish on southern outrages. Let
them migrate, say We-iust as many OF
them as can be induced to do so. They
will soon returu-as nine out OF every ten
who 90 North from this state Go return 10
yireinia-and ask to be taken back by
their old or other southern employers.
Could more conclusive proof be asked to
show that the negro Is better OF in the
South than IN The North: venture TO
say that the negroes would not accept the
right Of suffrage as a condition of migrating
10 the North. Let them choose between
residing and voting Ia the North aud re.
siding and being DISTINGUISHED in the South,
and they would prefer the Litter.